History YMMV / Frasier

* TheAce: Dr. Clint Webber. [[spoiler:[[DreadfulMusician Can't sing though.]]]]

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: From the episode ''Dinner At Eight''; one the one hand, Martin is right that Frasier and Niles need to relax and enjoy "normal" things sometimes; but seeing as how their hostess just cut off their (presumably expensive) ties, they have a right to be angry. Or at least very, very annoyed.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: At one point in the first season, Martin says that Lilith is much weirder than Maris. Eleven seasons later, Lilith is a fairly sympathetic recurring character, while Maris was so strange no human actress could portray her and she was once mistaken ''for a hatrack.''

* HamToHamCombat: Frasier. Niles. SiblingRivalry. Impromptu ham-offs every couple of episodes.

** The episode with Patrick Stewart wouldn't be the last time Kelsey Grammar and Patrick Stewart would work [[{{XMenTheLastStand}} together]].

*** The first scene of Donny after Daphne and Niles get together, Frasier finds him sitting in the dark in his office, despondant and talking to the groom from his wedding cake, who he's named "Mr. Chump". He furthermore tells Frasier he doesn't hate Daphne for what happened, but he weakly jokes that as a lawyer, suing people is just his knee-jerk reaction to handling problems. While Frasier's confession of his hand in the events gets his riled up, the scene makes it clear that he was thrown into a HeroicBSOD by what happened and just doesn't know how to handle it.

** Through the series, it's clear Frasier has very little knowledge of sports, but after spending all the time at Cheers, with Sam and all those Boston sports nuts (and they ARE nuts about sports in Boston) I find it hard to accept his total ignorance.

*** Going back to the "Better On DVD" part. It should be noted that the edited syndicated versions of some episodes are used instead of the uncut versions.
**** Not true. The [=DVDs=] and the Netflix versions are full, complete, and uncut.

* TearJerker: I dare you to watch the episode ''Rooms with a View'' without tearing up. I ''dare'' you.

* TheAce: Dr Clint Webber. [[spoiler:[[DreadfulMusician Can't sing though.]]]]

*** This may be a case of DependingOnTheWriter[=/=]CharacterisationMarchesOn. In some episodes Fraiser clearly understands what's going on, he just has no interest in it.

**** Not true. The DVDs and the Netflix versions are full, complete, and uncut.

* DracoInLeatherPants: An in-universe example. Martin and the boys talk about Hester as if she were a saint, but from what we know about her: She cheated on Martin at least once, she egged on the rivalry between Frasier and Niles that continues to affect them in adulthood and that's not even counting her manipulitive, shrewish behaviour on cheers. On the other hand, they wouldn't exactly be the first grieving sons / husbands to ever decide to NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead when it comes to a deceased and clearly much-loved-and-loving-despite-her-flaws mother/wife, so this is perhaps understandable.

** Even Daphne's fiance, Donny, can fit; yes, we're rooting for Niles and Daphne to end up together, but he still gets it rough, and he's a fairly decent guy. His counterpart, Mel, never gets the same sympathy, as she's portrayed as a much crueler individual.
*** The first scene of Donny after Daphne and Niles get together, Frasier finds him sitting in the dark in his office, despondant and talking to the groom from his wedding cake, who he's named "Mr. Chump". He furthermore tells Frasier he doesn't hate Daphne for what happened, but he weakly jokes that as a lawyer, suing people is just his knee-jerk reaction to handling problems. While Frasier's confession of his hand in the events gets his riled up, the scene makes it clear that he was thrown into a HeroicBSOD by what happened and just doesn't know how to handle it.

*** The first scene of Donny after Daphne and Niles get together, Frasier finds him sitting in the dark in his office, despondant and talking to the groom from his wedding cake, who he's named "Mr. Chump". The guy may have been announced as suing Daphne in the previous scene, but this makes it clear that he was thrown into a HeroicBSOD.

* DracoInLeatherPants: An in-universe example. Martin and the boys talk about Hester as if she were a saint, but from what we know about her: She cheated on Martin at least once, she egged on the rivalry between Frasier and Niles that continues to affect them in adulthood and that's not even counting her manipulitive, shrewish behaviour on cheers.

** The episode where Sam Malone shows up, Sam and Roz do a bit of flirting. Almost 2 decades later, Ted Danson and Peri Gilpin play husband and wife on '[[CSICrimeSceneInvestigation CSI]].

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: When Frasier has failed at convincing [=Bebe=] to stop smoking, he takes a different tactic that works.
-->'''Frasier:''' For God's sake... I don't care anymore. You know, I can't help you, nobody can. You want to ruin it for both of us? Here, go ahead, knock yourself out. I only wish I could be there when it happens.
-->'''Bebe:''' When what happens?
-->'''Frasier:''' When you see that newspaper headline: "Big Willy Boone, Millionaire, Dead." Oh, how I wish I could be there when you watch the funeral on the news. Watch the casket being slipped into the ground. Only, you won't be watching that. No, no, you'll be watching... the widow Boone. Tiffany, perhaps. Oh no, better yet, "Kelli" - with an "I"!
-->'''Bebe:''' [[AnythingButThat Stop it!]]
-->'''Frasier:''' You'll picture her wearing '''YOUR''' jewels, sailing in '''YOUR''' yachts, sleeping with '''YOUR''' gigolos - but, oh, you won't be sad, no, no, no! [chuckles] Because you'll have your ''cigarette''.
-->''(Bebe looks horrified at her cigarette)''
-->'''Frasier:''' Yeah! Clutched in your nicotine-stained teeth, smoke whirling about your once-pretty, now creased, leathery, smoke-ravaged...
-->'''Bebe:''' Enough! ''(gives the cigerettes to Frasier)'' You are one ''hell'' of a therapist.

*** The first scene of Donny after Daphne and Niles get together, Frasier finds him sitting in the dark in his office, despondant and talking to the groom from his wedding cake, who he's named "Mr. Chump". The guy may have been announced as suing Daphne in the previous scene, but this makes it clear that he was thrown into a HeroicBSOD.
** Martin and Frasier crying in the episode Our Father whose art ain't heaven.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Martin a loveable curmudgeon or a racist, homophobic Jerkass?
** In what exact episodes does Martin act like a racist? He doesn't seem particularly homophobic either, for a man of his age and background.

** As well as the botched 'Buttons and Bows' in the episode "Leap Year."

* * AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Martin a loveable curmudgeon or a racist, homophobic Jerkass?

*** A first season episode has him [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech point out]] that their mother was a [[CloserToEarth much more down-to-earth person]] who was very welcoming and didn't sneer at "lower-class" tastes. Martin's disappointment comes from how they ''don't'' take after her more than how they do.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: In "Room Full of Heroes", Niles begins to say, in-character as Martin, that he and Frasier were disappointments to him. Martin sharply cuts him off and says he's portraying him as a drunken jackass. While Niles was certainly over the line, considering how Martin treats the two of them and routinely expresses exasperation about their behavior, it's hard not to see why Niles would think this way.